Chapter 139 The Secret of Time
In the evening, we had hot pot as usual.
After Mei Yang came to this timeline, Melada only hunted a takin for him on the afternoon of the first day and made dried meat. The rest of the time, he ate fish and occasionally some bird eggs.
Melada would occasionally accompany Mei Yang to eat some vegetables from the hot pot, because Mei Yang said that eating together was a very important thing.
"Did anything happen when I left?" Melada always felt that something was wrong with Mei Yang's expression before. He thought about it over and over again, but he still felt uneasy.
Mei Yang shook his head: "Nothing."
It’s not that he doesn’t want to say it, but that he can’t say it.
On the way back, Mei Yang tried to bring up this matter with Meleda several times, but failed.
Mei Yang simply stopped thinking about it. He hadn't suffered any substantial harm anyway. So what if he couldn't figure it out? There were so many things he couldn't figure out.
Instead of worrying about those things, it is better to cherish the present.
After finishing his meal, Mei Yang felt a little sleepy.
He didn't do any heavy physical work today and just played all day, but the fright at dusk did consume a lot of his energy, causing him to feel sleepy before the normal time to go to bed.
While Melada was cleaning the dishes, Mei Yang ran to the lake to wash up.
Running water never stagnates. The spring water is as clear as a piece of light green crystal. If the weather wasn't a bit cold, Mei Yang really wanted to go down and swim a few laps.
Speaking of swimming, Mei Yang missed the hot springs in the Elf Square and the Elf King he first met.
That version is the most gentle, the most daddy, and the best at raising children.
Mei Yang certainly likes this version of Melada, but the one who first moved his heart, Mei Yang thought, should be the loneliest, most silent, and coldest king like moonlight.
"How many times do I have to travel through time?" Mei Yang murmured. "I can't possibly be stuck in his timeline forever, right?"
"But my life is so short, how can I last a lifetime?"
"Can you please stop..."
Mei Yang buried his head in his knees, trying to calm down.
He didn't want to go in and be seen crying by Melida.
Because the reason was unexplainable, Mei Yang couldn't explain to Melada why she was crying because she missed him in another timeline even though they were the same person and she was with him.
If you insist on telling the reason, it will be very hurtful.
After being depressed for a long time, Mei Yang felt that his mood had recovered a little, but just as he stood up and prepared to return to the cave, there was a sudden earthquake and Mei Yang almost fell into the lake.
It was Melada who suddenly appeared and grabbed him, preventing him from falling in.
"What happened? An earthquake?" Mei Yang held Melida's arm tightly, confused and uncertain. "Is it an earthquake? Why did it suddenly happen?"
Melada didn't say anything. He picked up Mei Yang horizontally and jumped onto the waterfall with him, staying at a higher place.
The earthquake lasted for several minutes.
But the strange thing was that not only did the ground not crack, but even the distant volcano that Mei Yang was most worried about and the coast a few kilometers away did not move at all, as if it was just a simple ground shaking.
Even the cave didn't collapse.
So strange.
After the earthquake, Melida finally put Mei Yang down from her arms. She held Mei Yang's face, which still had traces of tears, and asked him, "What's wrong? Did you cry just now?"
"I'm fine." Mei Yang was more worried about what had just happened. "Have you ever encountered something like that before? What happened?"
Melada stared at Mei Yang's face for a long time, so long that Mei Yang couldn't help but ask him again. He then slowly said, "It's nothing serious, just a system update."
"System update?" The overly modern term suddenly disconnected Mei Yang's train of thought.
"Well." Melida changed the subject, "Mei Yang, if I gave you something you really like, would you be happier? You are always unhappy."
"How can I be unhappy?"
"You're just smiling on the surface, but sometimes you cry when you fall asleep."
"..." In fact, Mei Yang himself didn't know he could have such an emotional moment. Did he really cry secretly in the middle of the night? Feeling a little embarrassed, Mei Yang pretended to be calm and said, "Don't worry about my boyish feelings for now - what happened just now? Our families are almost gone, aren't you afraid?"
Mei Yang didn't care that he was still listening to NetEase Cloud Music. He just wanted to pinch Melada's neck and shout, "There's an earthquake, big brother, it's been shaking for several minutes, why don't you react at all!"
Wait? Cuicui? Where's Cuicui?
Mei Yang started to run towards the waterfall.
Before he could run two steps, he was hugged by the strong young elf and jumped down with him in his arms.
Melida whistled, and the next second, a snow-white moose emerged from the woods.
"Don't be afraid, I'll take you to see something." Melida held Mei Yang and jumped onto the deer's back. Cuicui carried them both and ran at full speed.
The sound of bells and clangs came from under them. Mei Yang looked closely and found that there were many things hanging on both sides of Cuicui's body and behind her buttocks. They were actually the furniture they used most often.
"Are we moving?" Mei Yang asked.
He really couldn't understand Melida's train of thought.
If you say he doesn't care about his family, he keeps the house very well and is very virtuous, and can be described as both handsome and intelligent; if you say he cares about his family, it seems that he doesn't intend to keep that house anymore.
The hearts of young boys are really hard to understand.
"Yes." Melida was very frugal with her words. "I'm giving you a new home. The earthquake just now was the notification sound for your new home's completion. I'll take you to sign for it."
Mei Yang: “…”
The wind was strong at night, so Melida wrapped Mei Yang in her fur coat and said, "Don't be afraid, we'll be there soon."
Mei Yang had a vague premonition.
System updates, gifts, a new home—could Melida be talking about the mother tree?
He brought out the Elf Mother Tree?
Cuicui was still running fast. Mei Yang noticed that the route looked familiar, as if it was the way to the wilderness.
Coming out from a dense patch of bushes, the view became wider, and Mei Yang actually saw the Elf Mother Tree!
Right where the wilderness was originally, a huge ancient tree that blocked out the sun stood in the moonlight, its crown almost covering the nearby sky.
It was exactly the elf mother tree in Mei Yang's memory.
…
"How did you... I mean, how did the mother tree suddenly appear?" Mei Yang stroked the familiar rough bark, his eyes full of nostalgia.
The earthquake that just lasted for several minutes was probably caused by the mother tree breaking out of the ground and growing rapidly.
"Remember what I said before, you're the second human I've ever met?" Melida explained as she took the luggage off Cuicui. "Before you, I met a human girl—she claimed to be human, a pure high school girl. We met several times, and each time she brought me a lot of things."
"She always appears and leaves suddenly. The last time was ten years ago. She said she wouldn't be able to come again for a long time and asked me to let her know if I needed anything. She granted me a wish."
"Originally, I didn't have any wishes, so they were useless. But I made a wish this afternoon, wishing for the birth of the Elf Mother Tree and other spirits in your memory."
"Mei Yang, do you like this gift? I hope you'll be happy."
Mei Yang was stunned.
There was so much information in Melada's words that it almost overturned all his previous guesses.
Those overly modern words and the strange feeling that had long lingered in Mei Yang's heart finally had a reasonable explanation at this moment - this was not a naturally formed alien world with its own civilization, but was created by someone.
Maybe it's that mysterious girl.
But this is not the most important thing - Mei Yang doesn't want to dwell on those mysterious things after he has put on the clothes - he cares more about the cause and effect of his own body.
If, if this is the earliest anchor point of destiny, the Elf Mother Tree was a gift given to me by the young Elf King, and it was my words that made him the Elf King.
Then it all explains why the mother tree treats me so well and why the other elves like me so much.
My fate with you all was destined at this moment.
Perhaps something went wrong, causing me to initially travel to the end, the present tense. And because time corrected itself, I kept moving forward, until this time, the beginning of everything, when the Elf King granted me a wish for this giant tree that gave birth to the entire elf race.
"It turns out that I am the starting point..." Mei Yang murmured.
Melida didn't hear him mumbling to himself. He worked on it for a long time before he finally unloaded everything.
"Mei Yang, do you like it?" Melida asked.
Mei Yang sniffed hard and replied, "I like it. I couldn't like it more."
"That's good." Melida smiled.
He was in a good mood. Satisfying his partner made him feel accomplished, and he was happy because of Mei Yang's happiness.
"Want to go up and take a look? I hope it's just like you remember it," Melida suggested. He couldn't wait to invite his partner to their new home.
But Mei Yang refused.
"No, I'm a little afraid of the dark. You go up first and see if there's a light inside. If there is, come pick me up." Mei Yang tried to make himself look natural. "Cuicui and I will wait for you here - if not, we'll still sleep in the cave tonight. There's no rush to move, right?"
Melida, immersed in joy, didn't think much about it, nodded, jumped lightly, and jumped onto the branch a hundred meters high like flying.
Mei Yang sighed.
Sure enough, everything matched up. No wonder Melida didn't know about the existence of the vine elevator. I didn't tell him just now, so he had been jumping up and down for the next few thousand years.
In the blink of an eye, Melida disappeared from sight.
Mei Yang took a deep breath, prepared himself mentally, and then turned around.
Just as he thought, he turned around and stepped into a strange area. The sheep-headed man whom he had seen briefly during the day was waiting for him there.
"Hello, child."
Three steps away from Mei Yang, a sheep-headed man over two meters tall greeted Mei Yang gracefully.
He was a pure black goat with huge disc-shaped horns. The human-like expression on his face made him look strangely evil. His blood-red square pupils showed that he was indeed the monster that pulled Mei Yang into the black sky at dusk.
Beneath the sheep's head was a body similar to that of a human male. He was wearing an elaborate court dress, and the hand holding the walking stick was covered with a dense layer of curly hair. The calves exposed in his shorts were actually recurved sheep's hooves.
It is the embodiment of the devil in Western mythology.
If Mei Yang had not prepared himself mentally in advance, he would have been scared to death. After figuring it all out, Mei Yang knew that this black goat would definitely come looking for him.
"Hello, what's your name?" Mei Yang said, pretending to be calm.
"My name is Pan. But that's not important." Pan said with a smile, "You didn't go up with Melida. You must have discovered something, right?"
"Um."
"Smart kid, you guessed right. I can solve your problem. Or rather, I got some information wrong in the beginning, causing the time to get confused. Now, let's set everything right."
"I want to go back to the time when I first came to this world." Mei Yang took a deep breath and said, "Please send me back to that time. I don't want to travel through time endlessly anymore."
"If you have made up your mind, please." Pan made an inviting gesture and disappeared in the next second.
Mei Yang understood what he meant.
If all this has happened, then I should go back to the time when I first met him and try to spend more time with him in my short life.
Put time in order.
After making up his mind, Mei Yang turned around.
——He returned to the day when he was looking for the test paper alone, the devilish moment at dusk.
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The author has something to say:
Pan Shen mistook the mother's identity and identified it as Mei Yang.
Mei Yang is in big trouble, Melida is in big trouble.
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